Days at
the CoastA series of Sketches descriptive
of the Frith of Clyde, its Watering Places, its Scenery and its
Associations by Hugh MacDonald (1860)

St Blane's Chapel, Bute

DEDICATION TO
ROBERT DALGLISH, ESQ., M.P.

Respected Sir,

As one of the most
liberal, enlightened, and influential among the merchants of my native
city,—as an employer of labour, kindly, considerate, and courteous,— and
as a Member of the Imperial Legislature, possessing the confidence and
esteem of a large section of my fellow-citizens, I have much pleasure in
associating your name with the present volume. Permit me, therefore, to
inscribe it to you, with every sentiment of respect and gratitude. The
composition of the various Sketches contained in the volume has been to
me a labour of love; the excursions on which they were founded, a
succession of recreative and intellectual enjoyments. Let me hope that
the perusal of my unpretending pages may, at least, afford to you some
reflex of the pleasure they have afforded to myself, and that they may l
occasionally recall to your memory the glorious features of •Jk that
beautiful Frith, of which we are all so proud, and which £ offers so
many sanitary and soul-elevating privileges to the ^ inhabitants of this
great city.

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